The more one keeps the quarter note as the beat, the better the reading
will be, and the more the rehearsal can be about _music_, not about
fixing mistakes. Yes, good musicians should be able to read any note
value as the beat, but quarter notes are easier for musicians at all levels.
Raymond Horton
Bass Trombonist,
occasional composer and arranger,
Louisville Orchestra
Brennon Bortz wrote:
That's exactly it--I don't want it to sound any differently. In this
slow tempo, rhythms between instruments tend to not be as tight as I'd
like--they're not "locked in." The only way to perform it is by
subdividing. However, in several sections, note values are
consistently relatively long, on average. If it were running 8ths or
16ths at this slow tempo, subdividing is not a great task. But, lots
of halfs, wholes and dotted-wholes tend to become a bit sloppy in such
a slow tempo.
--BB
On Mar 15, 2007, at 4:33 PM, dhbailey wrote:
Brennon Bortz wrote:
I have a task that I fear is going to be quite a project. I have a
piece (well, a section of one) that is in much too slow a tempo to
be "felt" by a performer. Right now, it is at quarter note=38. In
order to make this more playable, I need to change the tempo to
quarter=76, double all note values, change time signatures (they
change rather consistently), etc. Does anyone have any shortcuts
for this?
Why not leave it as it is and tell the performer to feel it at the
8th note? If you're going to double the values while increasing the
tempo, the sound won't change, so just have them subdivide. Mozart
and Haydn did that in their slow movements quite often.
--David H. Bailey
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